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1.2starve someone out" or "intowith objectForce someone out of (a place) or into (a specified state) by starvation.

‘the Royalists were starved out after eleven days’

‘German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission’

‘But clearly the Home Office is determined that, if it can't get asylum seekers out by the legal route, it will starve them out instead.’

‘Many castles were very well defended and for some attacking armies, the only way to defeat them was to surround them and starve them out.’

‘During the Great Siege of 1779-83, the garrison under General Elliott resisted all attempts to bombard or starve them out.’

‘‘Moral issues are our bread and butter and we will not be starved out of this activity by such misguided and poorly grounded legislation,’ said Father Norden.’

‘Loggers should not drive indigenous cultures from the rainforest by ‘starving them out.’’

‘Battling granny Dot Kelly, from Farnworth, today said that British Coal tried to ‘starve her out’ of her sit-in 1,800 ft. below ground at closure threatened Parkside pit.’

‘In 1896, the British had tried to quell Ndebele resistance in the Matopos by starving them out; Smith's army and police had tried something similar and for the same reasons.’

‘There is some rumor of Federal supporters trying to block the rail lines into Manassas Junction and starving us out, but so far all it has been is rumor.’

‘The Romans, in their turn, took to burning fields themselves, trying to starve Hannibal out, trying to weary his men.’

‘The policy appears to be to ignore these people, starve them out, deny them healthcare and they will either die or go away.’

‘Sparta's victory at Aegospotami and its control of the Hellespont starved Athens into surrender in April 404.’

‘Agha's troops had the Taliban forces surrounded and were intending to starve them into surrender.’

‘Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary.’

‘‘We will root them out and starve them out,’ Rumsfeld said, just before closing a news conference with a ringing declaration: ‘We are determined not to be terrorized.’’

‘If the accused would neither submit to trial nor abjure the realm after 40 days, he was starved into submission.’

‘What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission?’

‘They torched all buildings except the food stores so that the Romans could not say they were starved out.’

‘It is not going beyond the limits of prudent statement to say that at any rate it will take a long time to starve us out.’

‘Instead, the state tried to starve us out for our agricultural unorthodoxy, then they charged us with starvation.’

‘More often than not we went hungry anyway, but then they attempted to starve us out.’

1.3usually be starved of" or US "forwith objectDeprive of something necessary.

‘the arts are being starved of funds’

‘The nuclear submarine lobby, known in the Navy as the ‘Black Mafia’, went ruthlessly for Trident, even though it might mean that the rest of the Navy was starved of funds.’

‘I was starved for conversation and thrilled to have the company.’

‘Dentistry is perhaps an even better example - only when the NHS dentistry system was starved of funds did we see a major change to private treatment and insurance - and even there you actually had to pay to get most NHS treatment anyway.’

‘Overall, the performance may be slowly improving - but the improvements are being made by the people who deliver the services on the front line and they are now being starved of funds.’

‘The cost of this service is a dreadful waste of money which would have been better spent (as GPs advised) on local out-of-hours services which have been starved of funds while this system, driven by edict from London, was put in place.’

‘The fact is that, even as we engage in this desperate struggle to conserve a dying language, other parts of our culture, affecting far more people, are being starved of funds.’

‘He has been starved of funds to rebuild the team and undermined by claims that the club's chief executive, Chris Robinson, and other directors might prefer another man in charge.’

‘There is no disagreement that councils have been starved of funds by successive governments.’

‘While the commission holds more meetings about capturing the narrative of Scottish life (whatever that means), artists are being starved of funds.’

‘But it was the Indian scholars themselves making the fuss, expressing concern that research institutes back in Bharat were and are being starved of much-needed funds.’

‘Not a duff track among them, honestly, and the thing didn't even make it past 20 minutes, so naturally I was starved for more.’

‘Public infrastructure is starved of funds to justify Private Public Partnerships.’

‘The Nationals argue that regional universities would be starved of funds to provide services, and want the Government to give grants to ensure that sports or medical services don't have to be shut down.’

‘Mullan speaks about his children with affection, something he was starved of by his own father, Charles.’

‘University chiefs have warned that more than 100 arts and science departments are at risk of closure after being starved of research funds, writes Gareth Walsh.’

‘Now a bitter row is set to develop over claims that Hull Council is deliberately being starved of funds by Mr Prescott to punish the council's new Liberal Democrat rulers.’

‘He argued that Mayo General Hospital was recognised by the Dept of Health and Children as the most efficient hospital in Europe and yet it was being starved of funds.’

‘They were being starved of funds at a time when the private health system was being built up by the government.’

‘Wavell believed that he was being starved of the necessary reinforcements which he believed he needed and he resigned in February 1942.’

‘But this is endemic, unfortunately, we're in a situation where council houses have been starved of funds for years.’

2archaic, dialect no objectBe freezing cold.

‘pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here’

‘[He'll] be obleeged to bring the shakedown near the fire..to keep her from starving with the cold.’

Phrases

starve the beast

Limit or reduce government expenditure by cutting taxes.

‘conservatives like to say their strategy of tax cuts all the time is designed to starve the beast’